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MWANGE CARLVIN JERRY
I am a BSc. Financial Engineering graduate with a specialization in quantitative analysis and data science. I am a quick learner,open minded and curious to engage in new ideas with challenges and efficient problem-solving tasks. I enjoy working environments that push my skills to the limit, motivated by quality results. I am cooperative, I have good problem solving skills, a team player, eager to learn and good at taking direction.Excellent verbal and communication skills as well as interpersonal skills.
Education
B.S., Financial Engineering
Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture And Technology
Nairobi, KE
2017 - 2013
- Reserch Project: Comparison between constructing an options hedge and a hedge on futures for market risk mitigation.
- Key Units: Probability & Statistics, Risk Theory for Financial Investments, Statistical Programming for Finance (R,Python)
Industry Experience
SKILLS
F# - Functional programming
Julia - Numerical Computing
Power BI / Tableau
Python - Data Analysis & ML
R(tidyverse, Shiny) - Data Analysis & ML
SQL - DBMS
I have worked in a variety of roles mainly revolving research & development in data analytics. I like collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers. Capable of working well both individually as well as in teams with minimum or no supervision and follow through assignments.
Quantitative Analyst
Nairobi, KE
Current - 2018
- Research and implementation of financial markets analysis models
- Building,developing and testing financial models used to analyze financial investments data in different markets across Africa (6 countries) - These models aid in better decision making for said fund managers and investors alike.
- Research and implementation of machine learning techniques in the financial markets domain.
- Implemented Machine Learning techniques for predictive modelling on financial time series data. Work primarily done in R, Python, Julia and F#(Nuget Packages) for the .Net framework integration.
Mathematical Engineering Intern
Nairobi, KE
2017 - 2016
- Performed analytical research in data manipulation and visualization.
- Research in financial modeling techniques and implementatio in R language for statistical programming.
- Built internal tool to help the company store, analyse and visualize Uber usage transactions for its employees.
- Predictive modelling research. Work primarily done in R, SQL and Microsoft Azure platform.
- Developed dashboards and reports for system processes monitoring- Work mainly done in R Shiny, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI.
Selected Data Science Writing
Being an avid data analyst, I challenge myself often to tackle different data analysis & visualization problems.Findings from these challenges are documented on my personal blog.
Personal blog articles based on data science research topics and practices
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Current - 2019
- This is my personal blog where I get to showcase some of my projects and research findings in data scince.
Digital Nudging, using Twitter data to solve a nudge case scenario
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2019 - 2019
- A case study and write up on the resulting solution I came up with during a hackathon hosted by Safaricom PLC on applying nudge theory to extract information from social media users online.
- Coded in R and Pyhton.
Selected Projects
My Data Science projects
N/A
N/A
- Documentation of personal projects and findings on data analysis, visualization and machine learning.
- Work primarily done in R Shiny, Python, F# and Microsoft Azure.
Honors & Awards
Data Science hakathon by Safaricom Alpha
Strathmore University
Nairobi, KE
2019 - 2019
- Finalist, Digital Nudging on Twitter data competition
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Certificate
N/A
2019 - 2019
- Certificate of completion of the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning course.
- Work done in Microsft Azure and Python
Referees
George Mbuthia Ndungu,
Software Engineer,
Microsoft EA, Kenya,
Tel: +254 710 773 556,
Email: v-gendun@microsoft.com
Michael Kaboro Maina,
Engineering Team Lead,
Innova Limited Kenya,
Tel: +254 721 205 226,
Email: michael.kaboro@gmail.com